DOJ charges seven Chinese nationals in multi-million dollar marijuana trafficking ring
MASSACHUSETTS, JUL 7 – The indicted group allegedly smuggled Chinese workers into grow houses and laundered millions in drug profits through luxury purchases, authorities said.
- Seven Chinese nationals have been charged in a multimillion-dollar marijuana trafficking organization operating in the U.S. Northeast.
- These individuals allegedly smuggled other Chinese nationals into the U.S. to work at marijuana grow houses, significantly profiting from sales.
- Prosecutors indicated that Jianxiong Chen, the ringleader, is charged with multiple counts, including money laundering conspiracy, bringing aliens into the United States, and marijuana distribution.
- Authorities arrested six of the defendants while searching homes, seizing large amounts of cash and marijuana.
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An alleged network of interconnected grow houses in Massachusetts and Maine that Chinese nationals operated to cultivate and distribute marijuana is no more after authorities arrested the men behind the “sprawling criminal enterprise.” Seven Chinese nationals have been indicted in connection with what the feds describe as a “multi-million-dollar conspiracy to cultivate and distribute marijuana across the Northeast.” The group is accused of smugg…
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